Since there was a lot of interest in Faith's and Peter's "Hungry Planet" book, it's only fitting to share the beauty of their first bestseller, "Material World" which is a book that focused on visually representing the total possessions of "average" family households from different countries (again with the "average" word). I do have this book (it's great), and I should also point out that it's actually available as a paperback.
Since this book was published in 1993, it's actually harder to find images on the net (although there is a good section at Peter's website), but then good old google can always deliver.
Here is an image of an American household in 2001. More below the fold, primarily from the 1993 book.
Anyway, visually awesome once again (and if any of you reading this have heard him talk, I'm interested to know whether he was a good orator, since I happen to organize a speaker series from time to time in my neck of the woods).
(Available from Amazon)
Comments
I had a professor once who always talked about "making things visible" as the purpose of all scholarship, and it was meant directly and in the abstract, but, damn, these pictures, like the last, are quite powerful. not to mention the direct expression with images of "making things visible."
Posted by: BRC | December 7, 2006 1:57 PM
BRC, you mentioned "a professor...who always talked about 'making things visible' as the purpose of all scholarship".
Making things visible: I like that!
With a quick web search I see a few uses of that phrase, but only in unrelated contexts. Does that professor have a public web presence or published documents about "making things visible"? I would be grateful if you could make them more visible.
Thanks!
Posted by: etbnc | December 8, 2006 10:17 AM